Levchenko, Andrei A.; Lewis, Logan T.; Tesar, Linda L. - In: American Economic Review 101 (2011) 3, pp. 293-97
This paper evaluates the hypothesis that during the 2008-2009 collapse in international trade, imports of higher quality goods experienced larger reductions compared to low-quality imports, using data on US imports disaggregated by HS-10 product category and source country. We find little, if...